Many of the folks coming will have a chance to volunteer for a full range of activities, including clean up, Habitat for Humanity or helping people gut their homes.

Police coverage will be more concentrated and easier to maintain.

Anyone who understands the local economy here knows this is a significant event. Yes, it will be a challenge for us to come up with money, but this is a tourist economy, and we need to have it.

This is really a chance for us to share what we did on the flight.

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.

I'm so glad we'll be going down there, getting a chance to help out and do something for the animals.